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20140098024 | SPLIT VIRTUAL KEYBOARD ON A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - Described herein is a split virtual keyboard that is displayed on a tablet (slate) computing device. The split virtual keyboard includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being separated from the second portion. The first portion includes a plurality of character keys that are representative at least one respective character. The tablet computing device is configured to support text generation by way of a continuous sequence of strokes over the plurality of character keys in the first portion of the split virtual keyboard. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098038 | MULTI-FUNCTION CONFIGURABLE HAPTIC DEVICE - Technologies relating to touch-sensitive displays are described herein. A computing device with a touch-sensitive display is configurable to act as multiple control devices, such as a video game controller, a remote control, and music player. Different haptic regions can be assigned for the different configurations, where the haptic regions are configured to provide haptic feedback when a user interacts with such haptic regions. Thus, similar to conventional input mechanisms with physical human-machine interfaces, haptic feedback is provided as a user employs the computing device, allowing for eyes-free interaction. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101545 | PROVISION OF HAPTIC FEEDBACK FOR LOCALIZATION AND DATA INPUT - Various technologies pertaining to provision of haptic feedback to users of computing devices with touch-sensitive displays are described. First haptic feedback is provided to assist a user in localizing a finger or thumb relative to a graphical object displayed on a touch-sensitive display, where no input data is provided to an application corresponding to the graphical object. A toggle command set forth by the user is subsequently identified; thereafter, an input gesture is received on the touch-sensitive display, and second haptic feedback is provided to aid the user in setting forth input data to the application. | 04-10-2014 |
20140372356 | PREDICTIVE PRE-LAUNCH FOR APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods of pre-launching applications in a computer system, said applications being likely to be activated by a user from a terminated and/or suspended process state, are disclosed. The pre-launching of an application may be based on the assessed probability of the application being activated—as well as the level of availability of system resources to affect such pre-launching. Applications may be pre-launched based on these and other conditions/considerations, designed to improve the user's experience of a quick launch of applications in the background. Several prediction models are presented to provide a good estimate of the likelihood of an application being activated by a user. Such prediction models may comprise an adaptive predictor (based on past application usage situations) and/or a switch rate predictor (based on historic data of an application being switched and, possibly, having a decay rate applied to such switch rate measure). | 12-18-2014 |
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20090006290 | TRAINING RANDOM WALKS OVER ABSORBING GRAPHS - A random walk is performed over a graph, such as an augmented bipartite graph, relating to ownership data with respect to a plurality of users and items owned; the graph can provide social links between the users as well. Items can be recommended to users who do not own the items by randomly walking the graph starting at the user node to which the recommendation will be given. The random walk can step from user to user or from user to item; when an item is reached, the node can be absorbing such that the random walk terminates. The arrived item is recommended to the user. Parameters can also be provided to affect decisions made during the walk about which users to walk to and/or whether to walk to a user or an item. | 01-01-2009 |
20090054123 | INFORMATION COLLECTION DURING GAME PLAY - Systems and methods allow an on-line game to extract information relevant to a specific need of a game platform or service platform. The specific need relates to management and use of digital content, and is addressed by designing and playing an on-line collaborative game. The rules of the game intend to solve a specific task dictated by the specific need. Players' responses to the game generate a wealth of information related to a specific task objective, such as ranking, sorting, and evaluating a set of digital content items. To compel participation in a game, players can be rewarded with monetary value rewards. As a game illustration, an image selection game (ISG) that exploits human contextual inference is described in detail. The information extracted from ISG is a list of key-image associations, relevant for the task of image sorting and ranking. | 02-26-2009 |
20090186694 | VIRTUAL WORLD PLATFORM GAMES CONSTRUCTED FROM DIGITAL IMAGERY - An interactive game within a virtual world platform is provided wherein a sender can hide an object within a mapping application. An intended recipient of the object can be notified that the object is available and a clue can be provided. The clue can direct the recipient in searching for where the object is hidden. The objects can be intended for a single recipient, multiple recipients, or open to everyone on a first-come-first-served basis. The objects can be stolen by others and/or the objects can be re-gifted after being found. After being found, the virtual object can be automatically or manually converted into a non-virtual object. | 07-23-2009 |
20090327032 | QUALITY BASED PRICING AND RANKING FOR ONLINE ADS - A “Quality-Based Ad Pricer” prices ads as a function of how users respond to a particular page and/or domain to which they are sent by an online advertisement. User experience is improved by ensuring that advertisements that are more relevant to a user are priced less than an ads which are less relevant to the user. In particular, a quality factor for each ad is determined as a property of the advertiser's site based on measured user behaviors with respect to that site. This quality factor is then used in ranking, selecting, and pricing ads in an automated online auction. Further, while ad aggregators are not excluded from the ad market by the pricing rules of the Quality-Based Ad Pricer, these rules ensure that there is a “level playing field” such that ads of merchants are not excluded by the ads of ad aggregators. | 12-31-2009 |
20100315266 | PREDICTIVE INTERFACES WITH USABILITY CONSTRAINTS - A “Constrained Predictive Interface” uses predictive constraints to improve accuracy in user interfaces such as soft keyboards, pen interfaces, multi-touch interfaces, 3D gesture interfaces, EMG based interfaces, etc. In various embodiments, the Constrained Predictive Interface allows users to take any desired action at any time by taking into account a likelihood of possible user actions in different contexts to determine intended user actions. For example, to enable a virtual keyboard interface, various embodiments of the Constrained Predictive Interface provide key “sweet spots” as predictive constraints that allow the user to select particular keys regardless of any probability associated with the selected or neighboring keys. In further embodiments, the Constrained Predictive Interface provides hit target resizing via various piecewise constant touch models in combination with various predictive constraints. In general, hit target resizing provides dynamic real-time virtual resizing of one or more particular keys based on various probabilistic criteria. | 12-16-2010 |
20110202876 | USER-CENTRIC SOFT KEYBOARD PREDICTIVE TECHNOLOGIES - An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing feedback and guidance to touch screen device users to improve text entry user experience and performance by generating input history data including character probabilities, word probabilities, and touch models. According to one embodiment, a method comprises receiving first input data, automatically learning user tendencies based on the first input data to generate input history data, receiving second input data, and generating auto-corrections or suggestion candidates for one or more words of the second input data based on the input history data. The user can then select one of the suggestion candidates to replace a selected word with the selected suggestion candidate. | 08-18-2011 |
20140310213 | USER-CENTRIC SOFT KEYBOARD PREDICTIVE TECHNOLOGIES - An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing feedback and guidance to touch screen device users to improve text entry user experience and performance by generating input history data including character probabilities, word probabilities, and touch models. According to one embodiment, a method comprises receiving first input data, automatically learning user tendencies based on the first input data to generate input history data, receiving second input data, and generating auto-corrections or suggestion candidates for one or more words of the second input data based on the input history data. The user can then select one of the suggestion candidates to replace a selected word with the selected suggestion candidate. | 10-16-2014 |
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20100324041 | PYRROLOPYRIDINES AS KINASE INHIBITORS - Compounds of Formula (I) are useful for inhibition of CHK1 and/or CHK2. Methods of using compounds of Formula (I) and stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis, prevention or treatment of such disorders in mammalian cells, or associated pathological conditions are disclosed. Formula, (I). | 12-23-2010 |
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20120157448 | COMPOUNDS FOR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES - The invention provides novel tricyclic compounds of Formula I′ that inhibit β-secretase cleavage of APP and are useful as therapeutic agents for treating neurodegenerative diseases. | 06-21-2012 |
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